METRN
Sign in to saveAlso known as C16orf23, c380A1.2, meteorin, glial cell differentiation regulator
Meteorin, glial cell differentiation regulator is a protein that in humans is encoded by the METRN gene.
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Vinony's link graph records 2 inbound references to METRN, and connects out to PubMed, human chromosome 16 and Ensembl genome database project.
It is catalogued under the topic Genes on human chromosome 16.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Gene data
METRN- Name
- meteorin, glial cell differentiation regulator
- Type
- protein-coding
- Position
- 715,093–719,796 (+)
- Aliases
- C16orf23, c380A1.2
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000103260
- RefSeq RNA
- NM_024042.4
- RefSeq protein
- NP_076947.1
Meteorin regulates glial cell differentiation and promotes the formation of axonal networks during neurogenesis (Nishino et al., 2004 [PubMed 15085178]).[supplied by OMIM, Mar 2008].
Gene Ontology
Molecular function
Cellular component
via MyGene.info
Gene · Ensembl
meteorin, glial cell differentiation regulator
- Symbol
- METRN
- Biotype
- Protein coding
- Organism
- Homo sapiens
- Location
- 16:715,093-719,796
- Strand
- Forward (+)
- Assembly
- GRCh38
via Ensembl · EMBL-EBI
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- gene
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- HomoloGene ID
- 11432
- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- exact match
- identifiers.org/ncbigene/79006
- chromosome
- human chromosome 16
- genomic start
- 715118
- genomic end
- 769655
- cytogenetic location
- 16p13.3
- expressed in
- anterior pituitary
Sources (4)
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Function
- References
- Further reading
Meteorin, glial cell differentiation regulator is a protein that in humans is encoded by the METRN gene.
==Function==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “METRN” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.